I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.

I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it , or thinking about it .

Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.

Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it.

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.

Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.

I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and scientific progress, or that spirit will die. It is incumbent on our educators to remember this; and music is at the top of the spiritual must list. When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost. But as long as we insist on maintaining artistic vitality, we are able to hope in man